Re: [swfaddress-users] Error in IE 6 on Windows

[Jon M. <jon...@gm...>]

Awesome. I'm glad to hear you are thinking about adding support for
Analytics. I believe the issue is indeed that two javascript calls end up
being made too closely to one another, and IE just doesn't like it. Firefox
and Safari don't seem to have a problem with it.

For more information on using Google Analytics with Flash, you can check out
this URL:

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27243

and

http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?answer=27244

Basically you would make a getURL call to the javascript function, passing
it a custom path to what you want it to track. For instance, when I'm
tracking the "What" section, I'll use:

getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/what/');");

and if I want to go another section deep, I'll use:

getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/what/subsection/');");

Google Analytics relies on whatever I pass it for the tracking. It does not
use the entire current URL string. For instance, you had asked about
http://www.xplane.com/dev. I had setup that URL to be tracked as :
getURL("javascript:urchinTracker('/');"); since it is the root of the site.
I could have made that anything, however.

What I would love to see SWFAddress track (i.e. make the urchinTracker()
call for) is everything after the "#" in the URL.

If you need any other information, or if there is anything else I can help
with, please let me know!

Thanks,
jon

On 12/6/06, Rostislav Hristov <ros...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi Jon,
>
> I'm planning to add transparent support for Analytics in the next
> release. I think that it will be available in about a week or two. The
> urchinTracker() will be called only from the JS part of SWFAddress so
> there won't be any additional Flash to JS communication. If this
> timeframe does not suit your needs I will try to help you with a quick
> hack.
>
> I still haven't tested how Google tracks those Flash/Ajax events and
> probably you can help me if there's already some data stored in your
> account.
>
> For an URL like yours (http://www.xplane.com/dev) what's tracked for
> urchinTracker('/what') - /what or /dev/what? I couldn't find it in the
> docs if these are relative or absolute addresses. It will be correct
> if in your case you see /dev/what in the stats and if not I will try
> to support it internally.
>
>
> Best,
> Rostislav
>